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I was looking for off-site back options and S3 seemed to play nice with restic (I had been backing up to my NAS).

Wasabi was interesting because they charged a flat fee pert TB and don’t charge for egress (when I have to restore).

They’ve been rock solid for a few years now, in addition to restic backups, I’m using them for my terraform state file storage and a static site hosting https://stronk.bond/.

I’m using restic and targeting Wasabi S3 for the backend. It’s not super user friendly, but it’s cheap.

Depending on how you’re taking “inspiration” I’m fairly certain you can get sued if Anthropic feels like it.

Clean room development is there for a reason (although can you use AI in such an effort?)

We are Flowers for Algernoning our technology.

If I use my phone (not android Auto), I can no longer say, “Navigate to <place>”. It flat out does not work.

Navigate to Local Bakery Xyz.

I’m sorry I can’t do that.

(It tries to open the non-existent app for the local bakery).

If I’m in the car that has android auto, it refuses to let me type while in drive (fair enough) and it recognizes the “Navigate to…” Instructions, but if I click on the Maps nav bar for voice and say my destination (it literally says, no text while driving speak your destination)… It tries to open the app.

This shit used to work, it’s getting actively dumber.

This morning I got fed up and asked,

“Can I use you to navigate somewhere?”

Sure! Where would you like to go?

“Dutch Bros”

(Opens the Dutch Bros app)

Aww where’s the link? I have an old iPhone that my ex-employeer didn’t want back - I wouldn’t mind playing around with it.

I’ve been doing LoRa for the better part of a year, in a fairly active Midwest city (checking now, my SeeedStudio T1000-e can see ~145 nodes (although most are via MQTT - more on that in a minute).

I also have two Muzi works h2t hand held nodes - one is connected to my home wifi with a local MQTT server configured as client_base which allows my non-wifi nodes to relay through it to reach the mesh.

Lastly, I just put up a SensCAP Solar P1 Pro node on my roof.

It’s a lot, but basically the heltec running client_base stays plugged in at my house, the second heltec comes with me in the car, and the t1000e stays on my person. The Meshtastic android and iOS apps are really good, the former is what I’ll use to send/receive messages for whichever node I’m using.

One word of caution, that mountain solar node may need software updates to keep running smoothly without messing with the mesh, and updates remotely (over Bluetooth) are sketchy at best.

Aside from that, I say go for it. The mountain node would probably be in router mode to encourage other nodes to bounce through it - you’ll want to tweak settings to make sure it performs optimally.

Lastly MQTT… A lot of purists frown on MQTT because it kind of goes against the whole “wireless infrastructure only” mindset. But until there’s enough coverage with LoRa nodes, MQTT can bridge that gap and connect isolated pockets to a larger mesh.

Thanks I hate it!

You didn’t know that GrapheneOS is diversifying by also deciding to start manufacturing footballs (soccer for our American friends)?

In my head cannon, we’ll see him again as one of the horsemen of wholesomeness.

https://zuberan.com/wp-the-end-is-nigh-as-the-4-horsemen-of-the-apocalypse-ride-just-as-humanity-loses-hope-the-4-horsemen-of-wholesomeness-descend-in-a-beam-of-light-mr-rogers-love-jim-henson-life-steve-erwi/

Unfortunately, mixarr may start to become significantly less useful - Spotify is killing most all their API access. 😢

Yeah I’m in the same boat. I’d love to degoogle a bit, but there are just a few essential apps that don’t play nice with Graphene.

Do you use Google wallet for tap to pay? If not, try GrapheneOS.

It’s fairly simple, based on AOSP, and works with pretty much any app (except Google Wallet).

I’m guessing it’ll be less Star Trek and more The Expanse - corporations owning everything and no public civic positions.

Or move to a piracy method that is download only like newsgroups.

It’s an interesting idea, but what makes this better/different than Heroic, Lutris, and other “integrate with Steam” things?

I guess with Heroic, I have to install the games before they can be added to Steam. 🤔

Package. His tiny (NodeJS) package.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Npm_left-pad_incident

I also played expedition 33 and my god man, I need to talk about it. What a mind fuck and depressing game. It’s beautiful and written well, but with dark themes and I came away not sure what to do after finishing it.

Aww poor hedgie. Looks like my old one, Prickles.

So that we know which side to lay on because one is clogged?

Does anyone know if Fairphone supports tap-to-pay options? I tried GrapheneOS and although most of it was fine, the inability to use Google wallet for tap to pay was a deal-breaker.

My local credit Union doesn’t have an app that supports NFC, and since I’m based in the US, my options are relatively limited.

Oh, and I don’t want to buy a smartwatch just so I can put Google wallet on that instead.